Sorting out the all George Sloughs with Liz Tice

My wife and kids aren’t directly related to any George Sloughs, but after all the work collecting every single Slough record I could find in Pennsylvania so I could prove my wife’s ancestry through one of twenty Jacob Sloughs, I probably have the most detailed collection of raw data about the Slough family.

Elizabeth Tice contacted me a while back to see if I could help her untangle confusion surrounding her ancestor, George Slough of Pelham, Ontario. I believe I’ve been working on the problem for at least a year–when I started, it looked like there were just a few less George Sloughs who had lived in Penna. prior to 1800 than there were Jacob (about 20). I probably would have given up, but every time I ran out of ideas, Liz had uncovered something new I’d never seen before that unblocked me (I hope I did the same for Liz).

Working with Liz has been the best genealogy collaboration I’ve had, by far, since Uncle Jim accidentally started me on this hobby over five years ago. While I’m happy I’m nearly done, I’m going to miss working with Liz.

While that may be done, I still have a little bit more work to do polishing off my hypothesis about the ancestry of Liz’s George Slough. And maybe one of these days I’ll finish my defense of P. Daniel Gross, a step-father to quite a few Slough children from the 1700s.

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I just read your information about George Slough and I wondered if you had looked at the Brian Slough tree in Rootsweb’s Worldconnect Project: Slough-Walker Family History. Go to http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=bslough&id=I00120 to go directly to George Jacob Schlauch (Slough). It certainly seems to prove his existance and fits in with the information found within the Bessey document: “Volume 3 of the “History and Genealogy of the Bessey and Related Families” by Robert K. Bessey, U.E., ISBN 0-9694160-4-3, Copyright 1998″.

My first reference also makes reference to Philip Daniel Gross and his children with his first wife Leonora and then to his second wife, Anna Margaretha Hertzel, George’s wife.

George Schlauch is my 6G Grandfather.

My tree is not on the web beyond my pedigree (in ancestry.ca under J F Hiscott or Hiscott Family Tree. I have been working on it since 1995 and have over 31,000 individuals in the tree using Reunion on a Mac and there is no way I’m going to move that over but I am willing to share information if you send me your e-mail address. Mine is joehiscott@hotmail.com.